Prayer

Aug232016

Prayer: grandeur of listening in silence

Here we come to the lovely prayer of wonder: the still, wordless gaze of Adoration, which is proper to the lover. You are not talking, not busy, not worried or agitated; you’re not ask anything: you are quiet, you are just being with, and there is love and wonder in your heart. This prayer is indeed a beginning of beatitude; for the heart is filled and content simply to be—and its being is all Adoration. You find some hint of this utterly serene but utterly humble sense of infinity in some of the greatest music, in some of Bach….or Beethoven of the last quartets, or again in Johann Wolfgang vonn Goethe’s Gannymede. You find it in the music of the Mass, when the Alleluia traces its pattern of sound on the last vowel, saying nothing yet saying everything. You find it expressed in words of the Apostle Thomas, abashed at his unbelief: My Lord and My God. –Father Gerald Vann ‘Divine Pity’

Father Gerald Vann

Aug062016

Silent couples prayer from Healing the Eight Stages of Life

You may wish to pray this way for a few moments each day with your spouse or another person with whom you have a primary relationship.

A. Get in touch with how you need’s Jesus’ help.

B. Share it with each other.

C. Let one person give prayer and the other receive. If you are giving prayer, get in touch with your love and God’s love for the other person. Reach out as Jesus within you wants to reach out and simply fill the other for five minutes. The person receiving simply breathes in love (Jesus’ love within each other).

D. Reverse roles.

If you are alone, imagine yourself holding hands with Jesus and a person who loves you. For five minutes breathe in their love for you. Then, ask Jesus what the person who loves you most needs. With Jesus (or Mary) breathe Jesus’ healing love into that person..

Jul292016

Grace

Mary Be still

A return to bedside vigils, a Rosary prayed in community, two gathered. Witnessing, the passing of a life, the ceasing of a heartbeat. God is good and all giving.

“Thy kingdom come.” That is to say: May you reign in our souls by your grace, during life, so that after death we may be found worthy to reign with thee in thy kingdom, in perfect and unending bliss; that we firmly believe in this happiness to come; we hope for it and we expect it, because God the Father has promised it in his great goodness, and because it was purchased for us by the merits of God the Son; and it has been made known to us by the light of the Holy Ghost. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” As Tertullian says, this sentence does not mean in the least that we are afraid of people thwarting God’s designs, because nothing whatsoever can happen without divine Providence having foreseen it and having made it fit into his plans beforehand. No obstruction in the whole world can possibly prevent the will of God from being carried out. Rather, when we say these words, we ask God to make us humbly resigned to all that he has seen fit to send us in this life. We also ask him to help us to do, in all things and at all times, his holy will, made known to us by the commandments, promptly, lovingly and faithfully, as the angels and the blessed do in heaven. —St Louis de Montfort ‘Secrets of the Rosary’.

Mary pierced

Jul102016

A prayer for healing

Prayer at the feet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue at St Paul Shrine,a place of prayer for the significant other and myself. We read this prayer together.

Lord, You invite all who are burdened to come to you.
Allow Your healing Hand to heal me.
Touch my soul with Your compassion for others;
touch my heart with Your courage and infinite Love for all;
touch my mind with Your Wisdom,
and may my mouth always proclaim Your praise.
Teach me to reach out to You in all my needs,
and help me to lead others to You by my example.
Most loving Heart of Jesus,
bring me health in body and spirit that I may serve You with all my strength.
Touch gently this life which you have created, now and forever.
Amen.

Jul072016

You are my Love; You are my Joy!

Lord Jesus, without seeing You with our eyes in the sacrament of the altar, we believe that You are really present for the glory of Your heavenly Father and the salvation of our souls.